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Verse Nehemiah 5:3. _BECAUSE OF THE DEARTH._] About the time of
Zerubbabel, God had sent a judicial dearth upon the land, as we learn
from _Haggai_, Haggai 1:9, c., for the people it seems were more...
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CHAPTER 5
_ 1. The complaint of oppression (Nehemiah 5:1)_
2. Nehemiah's rebuke and demands (Nehemiah 5:6)
3. Nehemiah's generosity (Nehemiah 5:14)...
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DISTRESS AMONG THE JEWS. Neither this nor the next section, Nehemiah
5:14 (the two belong closely together) can be in their right place.
Nehemiah 5:1 deals with the economic straits to which the Jews...
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HAVE MORTGAGED. are mortgaging.
THE DEARTH. One of the thirteen famines (App-10) recorded in
Scripture. See note on Genesis 12:10....
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Some _also_ The complaint in this verse is that among the poorer
classes, those who had a little property were compelled to mortgage it
in order to obtain the bare necessaries of life.
_We_have _mort...
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BECAUSE OF THE DEARTH— Not long before this, there had been a great
scarcity for want of rain; which God thought proper to withhold, as a
punishment for the people's taking more care to build their ow...
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TEXT AND VERSE-BY-VERSE COMMENT
E. Internal difficulties arise and are overcome.
1. Selfishness and greed create a problem.
TEXT, NEHEMIAH 5:1-5
1
Now there was a great outcry of the people and of...
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_FOR THERE WERE THAT SAID, WE, OUR SONS, AND OUR DAUGHTERS, ARE MANY:
THEREFORE WE TAKE UP CORN FOR THEM, THAT WE MAY EAT, AND LIVE._ NO JFB
COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES....
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NEHEMIAH'S MEASURES IN ALLEVIATION OF POVERTY
1. The people] i.e. the commons (as contrasted with the nobles and
rulers, Nehemiah 5:7). These had neglected their own interests to
labour gratuitously...
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THE *JEWS BUILD JERUSALEM’S CITY WALL AGAIN
NEHEMIAH
_ROBERT BRYCE AND ROBERT BETTS_
CHAPTER 5
V1 At this time, some men and their wives became angry. They
complained about some other *Jews. V2 Th...
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Nehemiah had organised the work well. He had selected guards to
protect the people from their enemies. But there were other problems
too. The wealthy *Jews thought that they saw an opportunity to make...
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BECAUSE OF THE DEARTH. — Not any particular famine, strictly
speaking, but their present hunger. The past mortgages had straitened
their resources....
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וְ יֵשׁ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֹמְרִ֔ים
שְׂדֹתֵ֛ינוּ וּ כְ
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USURY
Nehemiah 5:1
WE open the fifth chapter of Nehemiah with a shock of pain. The
previous chapter described a scene of patriotic devotion in which
nearly all the people were united for the prosecut...
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SECURING JUSTICE FOR THE POOR
Nehemiah 5:1
The prospects of the poor people among the returned exiles were
deplorable. There had been deficient rains and poor harvests, Haggai
1:6. They had mortgaged...
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A new difficulty now presented itself. This time it arose among the
people themselves. The rich among them exacted usury from their poorer
brethren to such an extent as to oppress and impoverish them....
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(1) В¶ And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives
against their brethren the Jews. (2) For there were that said, We, our
sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn fo...
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Liberty or Bondage?
I. INTRODUCTION
A. Galatians 5:1 (NKJV) Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which
Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of
bondage.
1. 1 Corinthia...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 2, 3, 4, 5, AND 6.
The time in which Nehemiah laboured for the good of his people was not
one of those brilliant phases which, if faith be there, awaken even...
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Nehemiah 5:3 [Some] also there were that said, We have mortgaged our
lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the
dearth.
Ver. 3. _We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, &c._...
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_Because of the dearth_ Not long before this, there had been a great
scarcity of corn through want of rain, which God had withheld as a
punishment for the people's taking more care to build their own...
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1 The Iewes complaine of their debt, morgage, and bondage.
6 Nehemiah rebuketh the vsurers, and causeth them to make a couenant
of restitution.
14 Hee forbeareth his owne allowance, and keepeth hosp...
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THE COMPLAINT OF THE PEOPLE ADJUSTED BY NEHEMIAH...
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Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands,
vineyards, and houses that we might buy corn because of the dearth.
The shortage of food may have been due as well to the excessive rains,...
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THE GREED OF RULERS REBUKED
(vv. 1-13)
At a time when many were laboring unselfishly for the Lord, it is
distressing to hear that others, and in fact those who were nobles and
rulers, were guilty of...
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1-5 Men prey upon their fellow-creatures: by despising the poor they
reproach their Maker. Such conduct is a disgrace to any, but who can
sufficiently abhor it when adopted by professing Christians? W...
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Which might easily happen, both from the multitude of the people now
in and near Jerusalem, and from their building work, which wholly took
them up, and kept them from taking care of their own familie...
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Nehemiah 5:3 were H3426 said H559 (H8802) mortgaged H6148 (H8802)
lands H7704 vineyards H3754 houses H1004 buy...
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ONE UNFORESEEN CONSEQUENCE OF THE CONCENTRATION ON THE BUILDING OF THE
WALL PROVES NEHEMIAH'S WORTH (NEHEMIAH 5:1).
Nehemiah is now revealed, not only as a great leader, but as a man of
compassion. Li...
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THE PROBLEMS FACING THE POORER PEOPLE (NEHEMIAH 5:1).
The three examples that follow are representative of a whole range of
problems rather than being specific, but underlying them are the
problems th...
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CONTENTS: Opposition by greed and heartlessness. Nehemiah's example of
unselfishness.
CHARACTERS: God, Nehemiah.
CONCLUSION: Nothing exposes Christianity more to the reproaches of its
enemies than t...
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Nehemiah 5:3. _Because of the dearth,_ specially inflicted by reason
of the people's wickedness, after their return from Babylon. See more
on Haggai 1:9.
Nehemiah 5:5. We bring into bondage our sons a...
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_We have mortgaged our lands._
THE MISERIES OF DEBT
I. Mental unrest.
II. Social degradation.
III. Family ruin.
IV. A disregard of a Divine command: “Thou shalt not steal.”
Application--
1. Chri...
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_And there was a great cry of the people._
THE FRIEND OF THE POOR
I. The complaint of the poor. It is sometimes alleged the poor have a
morbid disposition to complain of their indigence and suffering...
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NEHEMIAH 5:1 Nehemiah Deals with Injustices in the Community;
Nehemiah’s Personal Contribution to the Project. Nehemiah takes
measures to end the exploitation of the weak in the community by its
power...
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NEHEMIAH—NOTE ON NEHEMIAH 5:2 LET US GET GRAIN. Perhaps the men who
are working full time on the building project cannot do their usual
work to feed their families. Some of them were MORTGAGING their...
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EXPLANATORY NOTES.]
NEHEMIAH 5:1. AGAINST THEIR BRETHREN] _i. e._ the richer portion
(Nehemiah 5:7).
NEHEMIAH 5:2. THERE WERE THAT SAID] Keil divides into three classes.
(_a_) The workers, who had no...
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EXPOSITION
INTERNAL DIFFICULTIES, AND NEHEMIAH'S MODE OF MEETING THEM (Nehemiah
5:1). While the building of the wall was in progress, but not, so far
as it is stated, in direct connection with the emp...
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Now in chapter 5, further problems arose, and this time from within.
If Satan can't defeat you from his forces from without, then he seeks
to wreck you from the forces within. Many times the greatest...
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Deuteronomy 15:7; Genesis 47:15; Leviticus 25:35; Malachi 3:8...
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The dearth — Which might happen, both from the multitude of the
people in and near Jerusalem, from their work, which wholly took them
up, and kept them from taking care of their families, and from the...